Showing posts with label New Year's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Year's Day. Show all posts

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Winter Break from Blogging




I will be taking a brief break from blogging, but I hope to back at it on Tues. or Wed. I thought about lying to 'millions' of people and saying that I was going to Disney World in Orlando, Fla., for a few days but I won't be going that far from home. Though, I gather from watching CNN's weather report that it is as cold there as it is in Virginia and North Carolina.

Since we've used Hanna Barbera cartoon for the last two entries, we figure we'd continue with the seventies favorite Jabberjaw. I have no idea if this is available on dvd or not, but I guess I can always ask my friend Moviezzz who seems to know these things.

We would also like to take a moment to congratulate some New Year's babies who were AMONG the first to be born in this decade. I saw that some tv stations around the country had to go back and say that the babies they reported to be the first born in their respective areas were not actually the ones who were born first, so we want to avoid such mishaps here.

But, I can say all these babies were born between midnight and 1 a.m. in their respective time zones:

Christopher Lawerence Weston, Ogden, Utah
Angel Gonzales, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Michael Tirado, Raleigh, NC
Joseph Eliott Taylor, Alexandria, Va.
Keegan Lee Kinzel, Huntington, W.Va.
Thomas Richard Rock II, Akron, Ohio

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

PSA- Please Don't Drink and Drive









When I co-hosted a Turkish music radio show on 90.7 FM/WUVT in Blacksburg, Va., in 1994, my friend Bahadir and I would have to go over public service announcements that the station required us to mention.

It was a tedious and painful exercise at times, but I would like to think we helped get a kitten to a new home or made someone think about a homeless person in the streets.

With that in mind, I am going to ask folks not to drink and drive this holiday season. Yes, you've heard it before, and I don't mean to sound like an English nanny.

I tried to make this entry more interesting by featuring photos of taxi cabs in Hong Kong, China, and Istanbul, Turkey, but I am hoping this might make one person make a responsible decision tomorrow night.

On this blog and my sister blog "Politics, Culture and Other Wastes of Times," we are going to list taxi cab services from Maryland to South Carolina.

This list is of cabs in Maryland, Washington, DC and Virginia. Interestingly enough, Mister T, subject of an entry on Monday, was in a dreadful comedy called "DC Cab" in the mid-1980s......well, maybe it's not as bad as I remember!


Baltimore, Md.
Baltimore Taxi Co.
410-732-2600

Washington DC
Yellow Cab of DC
202-544-1212
dcyellowcab.com

Diamond Cab of DC
202-387-2221
dcdiamondcabs.com

Virginia

Roanoke
Yellow Cab Services
540-345-7711

Liberty Taxi
540-344-1776

Richmond
Deb's Taxi Service
804-439-2232
www.debstaxiservice.com

Norfolk
Checker Taxi
757-855-9009
norfolkcheckertaxi.com
857-855-9009